Last time I wrote a fairly negative view of the impact of AI. Today, I’m going to explore some of the ramifications of an optimistic view of AI’s potential. AI has the potential to be the next Industrial Revolution. There are obvious benefits to this from the increase in productivity Continue Reading
Creating Your Own Luck
Today’s post is going to be a little different than the usual fare. It’s not really insurance related. It’s perhaps more personal development advice than anything else, but stick with me, it will make sense. So one of the tough things about being an investor, or any other profession with Continue Reading
How to Reform Sports Gambling
Sports gambling is spiraling out of control, sort of like, well, an addict spiraling towards rock bottom. In just the last few weeks alone, there have been scandals about a NBA player sabotaging his performance to win bets, a finance employee for the Jacksonville Jaguars stealing tens of millions from Continue Reading
Happy 5th Birthday to IansBNR!
I looked back the other day and realized it had been almost five years since I started writing. Hard to believe. As today marks five years, I thought I should do a brief anniversary post. Don’t worry, I’m not going to do a rehash of a bunch of old posts Continue Reading
On Money, Time, and Purpose
It’s been five years since I retired from investing. I thought that would make it a good time for me to reflect on how I arrived at that decision as some of you may find the decision making process valuable. In introductory economics classes, we learn about the utility curve Continue Reading
What You Missed This Week
Going to try something new this week since I didn’t have time for a full post (don’t worry, one is largely done for next week). So if I didn’t post anything this week, what did you miss? Plenty! I share a number of shorter thoughts on Twitter that aren’t enough Continue Reading
Grading My 2022 Predictions: Pretty Good!
At the beginning of the year, I did a silly thing. I made a bunch of predictions for the year. This blog has a pretty strong record of predictions over the years, but I had never fallen for the nonsense of making topical annual predictions…until this year. Now, the thing Continue Reading
People Who Deserve Thanks This Year
For those of you wishing for a return to regular content, here you are, though I will put in one more reminder to check the Get Informed site for regular updates and follow us on LinkedIn for company news. And if you already visited, but didn’t follow up with any Continue Reading
The Activist Short Seller
As I was looking over Friend of the Blog Ron Bobman’s latest activist letter pressing for change at Argo, I had a unique thought. Why are there only activists who press for change to make stocks go higher? Why aren’t there activist short sellers? Now, maybe this seems crazy. Who Continue Reading
The Solution to College Affordability: Free Markets
There were two recent news stories about college affordability that caught my eye. These weren’t your typical stories about marginal students who maybe shouldn’t have gone to college at all but got roped into taking out a lot of debt to enroll and later dropped out and were stuck with Continue Reading